I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.